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Fleeing Deportation to the USSR

Fleeing Deportation to the USSR

FromWitness History


Fleeing Deportation to the USSR

FromWitness History

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Aug 11, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

At the end of WW2, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens who had ended up outside the USSR, escaped forced repatriation by the Red Army. Dina Newman hears from one family, originally from Soviet Belorussia, who disguised their ethnic origin and fled to Australia. Photo: Tanya Iwanow with her daughter Tamara, in Sydney, Australia (family archive)
Released:
Aug 11, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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